Re: omni

[Derek J Witt <cappicard@cox.net>]

Good Afternoon, all. I was curious about the same thing for the Lexmark 
drivers for Z23 through Z33 ColorJet printers (the Compaq IJ650 printer 
is just a remarked Lexmark Z33 with a USB interface. I'm sure that I'm 
not the only one with a Compaq IJ650 printer.). These are closed-source 
binary ghostscript 7.04 drivers.  Should these go into non-free, and 
should I just create a script to download the drivers and install them 
(like what flashplugin preinst script does)? I want to prevent any legal 
issues of distribution by doing a simple wrapper script.

So, I wanted to make sure I got the dependencies corrects. I should only 
need to depend on ghostscript-aladdin (I believe that is 7.04), glibc 
(or would that be redundant?). Due to some of the lexmark Z-series 
printers only having USB interfaces, I think I should have usbmgr and 
usb-perms as suggested packages, not recommended. Any input on this is 
appreciated.

Thanks.

-- Derek J Witt, cappicard@cox.net.


Rafael Avila de Espíndola wrote:
> I am working in building deb packages for the Omni printer drivers:
> ( http://www-124.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/omni/)
> Before making a ITP I would like to clarify some doubts:
>
> 1) Most part of Omni is LGPL, but it contains some drivers from Epson which are non-free. Should the same source package generate a free and a non-free package?
>
> 2) If 1 is true, how can I change the "copyright" file of the non-free package.
>
> 3)What are the appropriates names for the packages? What about omni, omni-dev and omni-non-free.
>
>
> Thanks.